But again you’re suggesting a time-limited window in which the AI welfare discussion happens, and if we don’t intervene in that window it’ll be too late. I just don’t see a reason to expect that. I imagine that after the first AI welfare discussion, there will be others. While obviously it’s best to fix problems as soon as possible, I don’t think it’s worth diverting resources from problems with a much clearer reason to believe we need to act now.
But again you’re suggesting a time-limited window in which the AI welfare discussion happens, and if we don’t intervene in that window it’ll be too late. I just don’t see a reason to expect that. I imagine that after the first AI welfare discussion, there will be others. While obviously it’s best to fix problems as soon as possible, I don’t think it’s worth diverting resources from problems with a much clearer reason to believe we need to act now.
I think that being there at the start of a discussion is a great way to shift it. Look at AI safety (for good and ill)